Dream on, sucker

Probably the most amusingly endearing quality of neocons is their childish inability to deal with the real world. They're like 6-year olds who imagine themselves blasting aliens or as Spiderman swinging through the streets of New York - or perhaps, like I did, as blasting home run after home run in their rookie year in the majors. And no matter how many times you try to hit the ball out of your hand and miss, still you see it flying over the fence.

In an article in the International Herald Tribune on Tuesday about cracks in the previously-solid front of neocon support for the war in Iraq, there is this:

Others are redoubling their arguments for the invasion of Iraq, contending that it should be the first step in a campaign to transform the region. In the next issue of Commentary magazine, Norman Podhoretz, who helped found the neoconservative movement in the 1970s, has written a 37-page defense of the Bush administration's foreign policy.

In "World War IV: How It Started, What It Means, and Why We Have to Win," he argues that the United States should now help seek the liberation of other Middle Eastern countries to help drain the swamp where Islamic radicalism breeds, just as the cold war helped liberate the Soviet Union.

"Like anybody else in the world who is sane, I am very much worried about Iran gaining nuclear capacity," Podhoretz said in an interview Friday. "I am not advocating the invasion of Iran at this moment, although I wouldn't be heartbroken if it happened."

Apparently, in his mind, the war has been a resounding success, Iraq is liberated and we should spread exactly the same liberation across the entire region. Isn't he just the cutest thing? Just look at him in his little Spiderman outfit....